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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Acton Beauchamp AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN EAST HEREFORDSHIRE … sentence to which reference should be made. The key-plans of those churches which are not illustrated by hatched plans … in stone. (4). Cottage, 360 yards S.E. of the cross-roads at Acton Green, is of late 17th or early 18th-century …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (1,934 a., 783 ha.) 1 is a long, roughly rectangular tract of countryside running down from the south-facing slopes … Hill across Ape Dale and rising up again to the crest of Wenlock Edge, which makes the south-eastern boundary of … old line in Wistanstow parish. 8 Before the 19th century roads led east from the Stretton-Ludlow road into the parish, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the highway in their parishes and as far as the City of London, 8 and a Londoner left money towards its repair in … 10 In 1737 it was proposed to use the spring east of Acton town to keep the road clear. 11 The worst stretch … at the boundary and lead thence to the Harrow road. Minor roads included one which branched off Horn Lane to Friars …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Agrarian history. Agrarian History The field system of the five-hide holding that became the Somerset estate was distinct from that of Acton manor elsewhere in the parish. The estate, covering over a third of the parish, was granted out before 1086 71 and perhaps …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… William Antrobus, in 1805 offered to assist the foundation of a school for the poor; 33 nothing further was mentioned, … said to have been established in 1808 under the auspices of the rector and supported by subscriptions. 34 In 1815 a … supported by subscriptions and supervised by a committee of 14; 35 the round house and coal house by the north-west …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Growth GROWTH. Prehistoric settlement is attested by finds of palaeolithic and neolithic Bronze-Age burials at Mill Hill … 'oak town', is Anglo-Saxon, it was first recorded as that of a witness, Viel of Acton, in 1181. 72 In the Middle Ages … parish was heavily wooded. Oaks and elms still stood along roads and hedgerows and in private grounds in the early 20th …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Acton Introduction Acton Acton, 1 parish lies c. 8 km. west of Hyde Park Corner, 2 bounded on the north by Willesden and … the 1930s. 4 From 1965 Acton has formed the eastern part of Ealing L.B. Most of the boundary with Hammersmith was formed by the eastern …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of ACTON was a division of the bishop of London's manor of … payments from his executors and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in compensation for copyholders' rights. 44 In … in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1881 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, as successors to the bishop, conveyed their …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… church. 37 He observed that the Independent ministries of Philip Nye, 1643-56, and Thomas Elford, 1656-61, had resulted in loss of support for 'the Independent separating vigour', because they had admitted to communion only two out of the entire parish. When the Act against Conventicles …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… conduit was constructed in High Street in the grounds of the Bell, later Suffolk House, by Thomas Thorney, who in … In 1881 the local board acquired from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners the wastes and commons, and part of the … the Goldsmiths' Company and 4 a. from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and laid out Acton park, between Churchfield …